The Constructal Law: from design in nature to social dynamics and wealth as physics

“The Constructal Law and the Evolution of Design in Nature” offers a new revolutionary approach based on physics for understanding and predicting the designs that arise in nature, from the oneness of animate and inanimate designs, the origin of finite-size organs on animals and vehicles, the flow of stresses as the generator of design in solid structures (skeletons, vegetation), and the global design of human flows. The physics principle that governs the phenomenon of generation of configuration in nature is the Constructal Law: “For a finitesize flow system to persist in time (to live), its configuration must change in time such that it provides easier and easier access to its currents (fluid, energy, species, etc.).”